I was a ride attendant at an amusment park and one day a group of people decided to set themselves on fire while in line for the ride I was running. (this was during a religous event that was happening in the park that week, and is the busiest week in the park)
And..what? What's so bad about this? Didn't have hot dogs or something to roast?
There is nothing like a little self-inflicted human suffering to make my day brighter.
Public housing projects where aborted fetuses are hidden under stair cases, along with use diapers from the other kids.
This shit would send me through the roof. People are fucked up, and I accept that. If they want to mess themselves up, I fully support them in that decision.
It's when they harm the innocents, that's what gets my blood boiling. Babies, children and animals, you harm any of them, you can expect hell from me. I think, were I put in your situation, I would be too busy hunting people down and hurting them to do my job.
Google has done it's one thing so well, they should just be happy with it.
If they feel the need to go portal ( and let me just say "#1 fucking retarded idea of the year...but whatever" ), they should launch an entirely different site ( and company, preferrably ).
If they feel the need to do so, add shit like "From the makers of Google!"
Sure, that's mostly true right now. However, let's take a look at some of our more popular software packages:
sendmail: I don't even know how many root exploits there have been in the past 2 years, but I do know that a respectable percentage of MX'ers out there run it. For you folks on sendmail: qmail. Trust me on this one.
bind: Another of our more charming packages, that should have been replaced years ago due to multiple vulnerabilities. Again, no numbers, and I don't remember seeing any exploits in the past year ( I don't run it, so i don't pay as close of attention ), but this one was a popular attack vector at some point.
apache www: Fairly secure from my understanding, only mentioned here because it runs over half the websites out there. Ask yourself this: Name one other webserver for linux/*bsd. Most people can't.
So as you can see, the danger is there. Common software packages, commmon kernel, the potential is there.
Isn't this another good argument against monopolies?"
In a very near sighted way, yes. But we are talking about mono-cultures here, which is a bit more broad than that. And, something that the linux crowd will want to be wary of.
With all the momentum behind linux right now, it could soon find itself faced with the same problems MS is faced with. While I don't doubt the ability of the linux folks to find better solutions than MS did, it is still a concern that people should be aware of.
"14. I have been informed by SCO's engineers and consultants that since the only version of AIX source code that was available for comparison purposes is several years old, and predates most of IBM's contributions to Linux, it was not possible to directly compare IBM's contributions to Linux with the most likely source of those contributions, namely the missing versions of AIX (including the most recent versions).
"15. Further, we have only one CD of Dynix/ptx source code that was produced by IBM, and this CD only contains a limited history of Dynix/ptx releases. It was therefore not possible to directly compare IBM's contributions to Linux with another likely source of those contributions, namely the missing versions of Dynix/ptx.
"16. Our engineers have reached the conclusion that parts of Linux have almost certainly been copied or derived from AIX or Dynix/ptx. In those cases, confirmation of this opinion would require access to more current versions of AIX and Dynix/ptx. Ok, I'm confused. Since when do two false's make a positive.
Ohh..they must be XORing the system. That makes perfect sense.
Yes, the record companies will have to pay more ( which will become a higher consumer cost, mind you ), but what's really cool is if they don't play ball with the publishers, the publishers have the right to sue for "damages", which could be substanially more than the actual missing royalies.
I never expected such small minds from the slashdot crowd.
Imagine yourself back about a hundred years ago. If you had told someone that, someday, we'd be able to turn nations into parking lots without the use of conventional soldiers, you would have had much the same reaction.
Ok, first, lighten up with the condensending attitude. I neither insulted you nor hinted that you don't know what you are talking about.
Second, I'm not overly concerned with trying to prove my point. That would be akin to someone in the 1600s trying to prove human flight is possible, when every study there is proves that it can not be.
If it's possible, then we can do it. And if human history has proven anything, if we can do something we will do it. It may take an extended amount of time, but I don't doubt that we will figure it out someday.
If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm more a student of humanity than science. And I've seen it more than once, the common belief that we can't do something, only to find out later ( days, years, centuries ) that it is possible.
My god, are you channeling Von Neumann? He said the same thing about weather and predicted 100% accurate prediction "very soon now" for quite a while. The problem is, "most of" the variables isn't enough, and there's no way to get all of the variables exactly right. Even if you had (say) a temperature sensor for each cubic inch of air space in the atmosphere, the temperature variations between the sensors will make any model you base off your sensor readings deviate from reality after a relatively small number of iterations. Complex iterative models are often insanely sensitive to initial conditions. There will never be 100% accurate weather prediction.
Dunno who that is, but he seems like a smart guy;).
Seriously though, we may not be able to imagine how it will work, or the solutions we can imagine don't work at all, but I'm confident it will happen, both for earthquakes and weather and anything else overly complex. Note that I did not say sometime soon, although I would like to see that too, I understand the technology and science we need just isn't up to par yet.
True, but like anything else, it follows natural laws, so it is possible to predict it, if we can find an easy way to consider all the variables ( or most of them, at least ).
Which is why I am confident we will someday find a way to predict ( with 100% accuracy ) weather patterns.
Yes, if I had to guess, I would say we are heavier at midnight and lighter at noon. I don't believe we have the instruments required to measure that, as our mass is so minor that the effects would be on such a tiny scale.
And I am not just talking about fault lines ( although I don't doubt that we'd see some violent shakers ), but all the little ways the earth compensates for the constant tug from the sun. It's like a house of cards, pull table out from underneath and the house falls.
I'm really thinking you are completely under estimating the importance of the sun here.
The planet is under CONSTANT stress from the pull of the sun, and it compensates in more ways than I can even imagine. Suddenly, that force is gone.
What happens when you lean against a leash ( what? I was a very hard to control child, leashes seem like a perfectly reasonable idea at the time ) while someone is holding the other end. Suddenly, they let go, without you expecting it. You fall on your face.
That is exactly what would happen. The interactions between the sun and the earth ( and let's not forget the moon's role in all this ) would go to hell in a mere matter of seconds ( if that long ). I could see the opposite side of the earth not knowing anything for up to an hour, at most, but even that is being generous I think.
If I don't get an exact number to follow, then I do what I always do.
I have recieved several of these notices over the last few years. Each time I either ignore it or call them up and ask for the numbers I am violating. And most of the time, they won't give them out. I have never been kicked off my ISP for overusage, but I guarantee they would get hell from me if they did.
More interestingly, it's possible that while we may perceive our universe as expanding, it could be that more space is simply being compacted into tighter quarters. To us, it would appear as if the universe is expanding.
Of course, the theory does state that time/space is wonky on the inside of one of these things, so it could be anything. Up to, and including, our universe being pulled out of a magician's hat.
I just hope that they're really going for scorched earth here. It's too bad that the "YOU CAN SPAM" act doesn't have any provisions for Mitnick-style sentencing ("no computer use for X years") because I'm not entirely sure that monetary damages are going to cut it when you're dealing with assmasters like Richter.
There are reasons we are allowed the right to bare arms.
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I was a ride attendant at an amusment park and one day a group of people decided to set themselves on fire while in line for the ride I was running. (this was during a religous event that was happening in the park that week, and is the busiest week in the park)
And..what? What's so bad about this? Didn't have hot dogs or something to roast?
There is nothing like a little self-inflicted human suffering to make my day brighter.
Public housing projects where aborted fetuses are hidden under stair cases, along with use diapers from the other kids.
This shit would send me through the roof. People are fucked up, and I accept that. If they want to mess themselves up, I fully support them in that decision.
It's when they harm the innocents, that's what gets my blood boiling. Babies, children and animals, you harm any of them, you can expect hell from me. I think, were I put in your situation, I would be too busy hunting people down and hurting them to do my job.
Exactly my fear.
Google has done it's one thing so well, they should just be happy with it.
If they feel the need to go portal ( and let me just say "#1 fucking retarded idea of the year...but whatever" ), they should launch an entirely different site ( and company, preferrably ).
If they feel the need to do so, add shit like "From the makers of Google!"
This would be more helpful if worked with my everyday system taskes ( build, check logs, ect.. ).
The faster I ran on this thing, the faster my compile would go. I'd buy it.
Cobolt Raqs, anybody?
Sure, that's mostly true right now. However, let's take a look at some of our more popular software packages:
sendmail: I don't even know how many root exploits there have been in the past 2 years, but I do know that a respectable percentage of MX'ers out there run it. For you folks on sendmail: qmail. Trust me on this one.
bind: Another of our more charming packages, that should have been replaced years ago due to multiple vulnerabilities. Again, no numbers, and I don't remember seeing any exploits in the past year ( I don't run it, so i don't pay as close of attention ), but this one was a popular attack vector at some point.
apache www: Fairly secure from my understanding, only mentioned here because it runs over half the websites out there. Ask yourself this: Name one other webserver for linux/*bsd. Most people can't.
So as you can see, the danger is there. Common software packages, commmon kernel, the potential is there.
Isn't this another good argument against monopolies?"
In a very near sighted way, yes. But we are talking about mono-cultures here, which is a bit more broad than that. And, something that the linux crowd will want to be wary of.
With all the momentum behind linux right now, it could soon find itself faced with the same problems MS is faced with. While I don't doubt the ability of the linux folks to find better solutions than MS did, it is still a concern that people should be aware of.
That explains the missing "wise overseer" part then.
"14. I have been informed by SCO's engineers and consultants that since the only version of AIX source code that was available for comparison purposes is several years old, and predates most of IBM's contributions to Linux, it was not possible to directly compare IBM's contributions to Linux with the most likely source of those contributions, namely the missing versions of AIX (including the most recent versions).
"15. Further, we have only one CD of Dynix/ptx source code that was produced by IBM, and this CD only contains a limited history of Dynix/ptx releases. It was therefore not possible to directly compare IBM's contributions to Linux with another likely source of those contributions, namely the missing versions of Dynix/ptx.
"16. Our engineers have reached the conclusion that parts of Linux have almost certainly been copied or derived from AIX or Dynix/ptx. In those cases, confirmation of this opinion would require access to more current versions of AIX and Dynix/ptx.
Ok, I'm confused. Since when do two false's make a positive.
Ohh..they must be XORing the system. That makes perfect sense.
If that lesson is, DON'T LET TERRY BROOKS WRITE THEM, then yes, let's hope he's learned his lesson.
I will take anything other than Terry Brooks.
I was surprised EP1 didn't have some sort of wise overseer who wouldn't tell people what he knew, only what he thought they needed to know.
Very few do this.
Not for any technical challenge, but because most bosses like to have something they can touch and feel.
It's actually a very distinctive type of paper, not just cotton ( although that's the "meat" of it, as it were ).
Hell, you can go to any college book shop and pick up 100% cotton paper. What do you think they write their Doctoral papers on?
Yes, the record companies will have to pay more ( which will become a higher consumer cost, mind you ), but what's really cool is if they don't play ball with the publishers, the publishers have the right to sue for "damages", which could be substanially more than the actual missing royalies.
I never expected such small minds from the slashdot crowd.
Imagine yourself back about a hundred years ago. If you had told someone that, someday, we'd be able to turn nations into parking lots without the use of conventional soldiers, you would have had much the same reaction.
Now look at us.
Ok, first, lighten up with the condensending attitude. I neither insulted you nor hinted that you don't know what you are talking about.
Second, I'm not overly concerned with trying to prove my point. That would be akin to someone in the 1600s trying to prove human flight is possible, when every study there is proves that it can not be.
If it's possible, then we can do it. And if human history has proven anything, if we can do something we will do it. It may take an extended amount of time, but I don't doubt that we will figure it out someday.
If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm more a student of humanity than science. And I've seen it more than once, the common belief that we can't do something, only to find out later ( days, years, centuries ) that it is possible.
My god, are you channeling Von Neumann? He said the same thing about weather and predicted 100% accurate prediction "very soon now" for quite a while. The problem is, "most of" the variables isn't enough, and there's no way to get all of the variables exactly right. Even if you had (say) a temperature sensor for each cubic inch of air space in the atmosphere, the temperature variations between the sensors will make any model you base off your sensor readings deviate from reality after a relatively small number of iterations. Complex iterative models are often insanely sensitive to initial conditions. There will never be 100% accurate weather prediction.
;).
Dunno who that is, but he seems like a smart guy
Seriously though, we may not be able to imagine how it will work, or the solutions we can imagine don't work at all, but I'm confident it will happen, both for earthquakes and weather and anything else overly complex. Note that I did not say sometime soon, although I would like to see that too, I understand the technology and science we need just isn't up to par yet.
True, but like anything else, it follows natural laws, so it is possible to predict it, if we can find an easy way to consider all the variables ( or most of them, at least ).
Which is why I am confident we will someday find a way to predict ( with 100% accuracy ) weather patterns.
Yes, if I had to guess, I would say we are heavier at midnight and lighter at noon. I don't believe we have the instruments required to measure that, as our mass is so minor that the effects would be on such a tiny scale.
And I am not just talking about fault lines ( although I don't doubt that we'd see some violent shakers ), but all the little ways the earth compensates for the constant tug from the sun. It's like a house of cards, pull table out from underneath and the house falls.
I'm really thinking you are completely under estimating the importance of the sun here.
The planet is under CONSTANT stress from the pull of the sun, and it compensates in more ways than I can even imagine. Suddenly, that force is gone.
What happens when you lean against a leash ( what? I was a very hard to control child, leashes seem like a perfectly reasonable idea at the time ) while someone is holding the other end. Suddenly, they let go, without you expecting it. You fall on your face.
That is exactly what would happen. The interactions between the sun and the earth ( and let's not forget the moon's role in all this ) would go to hell in a mere matter of seconds ( if that long ). I could see the opposite side of the earth not knowing anything for up to an hour, at most, but even that is being generous I think.
If I don't get an exact number to follow, then I do what I always do.
I have recieved several of these notices over the last few years. Each time I either ignore it or call them up and ask for the numbers I am violating. And most of the time, they won't give them out. I have never been kicked off my ISP for overusage, but I guarantee they would get hell from me if they did.
More interestingly, it's possible that while we may perceive our universe as expanding, it could be that more space is simply being compacted into tighter quarters. To us, it would appear as if the universe is expanding.
Of course, the theory does state that time/space is wonky on the inside of one of these things, so it could be anything. Up to, and including, our universe being pulled out of a magician's hat.
Which would mean the universe is already *in* /dev/null.
I have no problems believing that.
How, exactly, is that news? :D
I just hope that they're really going for scorched earth here. It's too bad that the "YOU CAN SPAM" act doesn't have any provisions for Mitnick-style sentencing ("no computer use for X years") because I'm not entirely sure that monetary damages are going to cut it when you're dealing with assmasters like Richter.
There are reasons we are allowed the right to bare arms.
Our founder fathers, they were very far-sighted.